Kleeb's not so dirty little secret but please look anyways

[JohnKleeb]

I never learned cursive :D among other things.

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1. As long as you can curse

that's excusable!
;-)

[JohnKleeb]

2. I can curse

good as anyone can.

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5. Hey JK would you do me a BIG favor?

[JohnKleeb]

6. ya what?

and no I aint sayin nothin about my crush I mentioned earlier. ok what do you want?

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7. Nah, I was gonna say

give us a new picture of Dennis but fuck me, I'm just tired and I'm being selfish.

G'night

[JohnKleeb]

9. well sure

but he looks best in this one honestly.

[Andy_Stephenson]

18. What Crush?

on who? Do tell Kleeb.

[JohnKleeb]

19. NO WAY

I aint saying nothing about who it is. No sorry. *shakes head* NO!

[Kanary]

3. I learned cursive.

It's just that nobody can read it.

Including me.

Kanary, who is consigned to using a keyboard for legibility

[JohnKleeb]

4. I type good but my handwritting sucks

My signature isnt really in cursive but it passes for it :D.

[FDRrocks]

8. Cursive owns....

You should learn it Kleeb... much faster.

[JohnKleeb]

10. If I couldnt learn it at 8 what makes oyu think I could now

love the marley avatar btw, I am listenin to redemption song now.

[Occulus]

11. I learned it but

mine is horrible unless I'm v-e-r-y s-l-o-w about it. See, I was taught to be dead accurate rather than put any kind of personality like I'd always seen before that into it. It was the very presence of the writer's personailty in their script that was missing from the 'how' of cursive handwriting.

Now, my print has character. But then, that's occasionally messy too :)

[JohnKleeb]

12. Its my biggest yet proudest shame

Take that school!

[CSI Willows]

13. Ain't missin' much

just fancy letters loop-de-looping....gives me hand cramps :(

[ronzo]

14. Yup.

I end up printing on notes and lists, etc.... You're not missing out much there.
Among other things? eh... nevermind. :)

[JohnKleeb]

15. I know, I said its my proudest shame

[Andy_Stephenson]

16. Cursive is waaaaaaay

overrated.

[Skittles]

17. no biggie

I know cursive but rarely use it because my handwriting sucks. I would not worry about it.

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20. I don't use cursive either, John.

I usually print or type, since no one can read my handwriting.

With my signature, my wife says I should have been a doctor (you know the way they scribble on their prescription pads).

No big deal. :toast:

[Rhiannon12866]

21. I print too, John. I know it's easier to read

Who has a crush on you besides half of DU?:D

[JohnKleeb]

29. I dont know who has a crush on me

[SheilaT]

22. John, my son who is your age

can write in cursive, but can barely read it.

When us old folks were in school, we spent an hour or more every day for YEARS practicing our penmanship. For you young'uns, there have always been better and more interesting things to do.

My mother who was born in 1916 was actually taught cursive at the very beginning (Catholic school, for what that's worth) and didn't learn printing until she entered nurse's training.

[nuxvomica]

25. Cursive writing is an unnecessary hurdle to learning

I struggled with it all through school. I learned it in second grade but I struggled for years to make it legible. I wonder how many smart folks never realized their potential because of this graphological albatross. There are many old-time skills worth retaining but cursive writing isn't one of them unless you are naturally skilled at it. This is nothing to be ashamed of, Kleeb. You are the victim of pedagogic oppression.

[MaineDem]

23. Ahhh, is it a lost art?

My handwriting is one of my strongest suits. I do calligraphy, as well.

I guess there's not that much need for it, eh? Don't they make you do it in school?

JK, I guess you could have worse secrets. But you're still young; plenty of time to develop bad habits. :evilgrin:

[Nikia]

24. How did you avoid that?

My second grade teacher made us redo our homework assignments if they weren't in cursive. If it wasn't redone within a day or two, we failed the assignment. A couple kids had trouble and they had to stay in for recess until they wrote in cursive. I usually write in cursive for my own notes, but print when I hand "writing" notes at work so I know that they are legible.

[curse10]

26. that's neat

I hope you can read it :-)

[Dogmudgeon]

27. T'ain't nothin', Magee!

Get a kids' copybook and follow the exercises. It shouldn't take too long -- a month or two if you practice two or three hours a week.

You want the Palmer Method of cursive -- modern cursive is simply connected printing.

All adults should periodically learn a new language, even a little bit, because it re-activates the parts of the brain that may have been unused since childhood. Learning to write left-handed, or upside-down is an even more powerful way to activate these "circuits".

Now, if I could only get that bedwetting thing under control, I'd be golden.

--bkl

[alfredo]

28. My cursive sucks. After years of work that demanded fast note taking,

my handwriting turned into a type of shorthand only I can read. Nerve damage from my injury hasn't helped either.